A video allegedly shows him shirt open, lolling back on his chair, smoking a crack pipeReuters

Lucinda Beaman

Last updated at 2:28AM, May 25 2013

The Mayor of Toronto, under pressure to respond to allegations he was filmed
using drugs, said yesterday that he does not smoke crack cocaine and could
not comment on a video he had not seen or does not exist.

“There has been a serious accusation from the Toronto Star (newspaper) that I
use crack cocaine. I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack
cocaine,” Rob Ford told reporters after a week of silence on the
allegations.

The Toronto Star and New York website Gawker reported last week
they had separately seen a mobile phone video

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• Marion Barry became a successful and popular Mayor of Washington in 1978. During his third term in 1990 the FBI filmed him smoking crack cocaine, and he spent six years in prison. He was later re-elected
• In 2009 James Hudson, the Deputy British Consul to the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, resigned after being caught on a four-minute video in a brothel consorting with two prostitutes
• The former US President George W. Bush damaged his credibility as a concerned wartime leader when in 2002 he followed up a call for international support in fighting terrorism by asking reporters to "Watch this drive" as he took a swing at a golf ball
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